Wednesday, 27 March 2013

March 2013

Hello from South
Queensland.

This week was transfers and I
got transferred to a small town called Warwick about a 3 and 1/2 hour drive from Brisbane. We
are working here after Sisters so it's something new and it will be interesting. Sending two completely new missionaries into an area is known as 'whitewashing'. My companion is one of the Elders from my last flat. It was a big surprise when President
announced transfers. This area seems to be nice. The town seems to be about
half the size of Alnwick, but the town centre is about the same size. There
quite a few more members in this Branch (about 50 every week). The Branch
members are really nice - they gave us a lovely welcome
(I love Branches) The work will probs be fairly slow to start off with but
the sisters have given us a good grounding - we just need to get to know the
members and the area. We are full time walk at the moment as we have no bikes,
we wont be able to go to outlying towns in the Branch unless we get a lift with
the members, It will be hard but I'm excited I kind of needed a challenge like
this, I was kind of comfortable in Redcliffe, especially with a companion I got
along with so well. I hope we can follow on from the sisters.

Warwick is country as it has like rodeos and stuff!!The work just started off slow but the sisters must have done wonders because
we had heaps of referrals this week.. We now have bikes ... next minute... my companion gets a flat,
he fixed it today, then it went flat again!!!! aaarrrgh We found a few potential investigators last week but a lot of people here seem to be
busy during the day :/ We'll see what we can do. Half the branch members live miles away from Warwick itself. The members are awesome but I'm still trying to
get my bearings to get them to come to lessons and stuff to have people fellowship. We
are working hard. Send my best to everyone

Talofa,

How are you all today? hello from a very humid Warwick, we had a storm
yesterday evening; we were just sitting at a members eating pizzas watching the
storm pass over - it was pretty awesome. Sorry I didn't get any pictures but it
was so beautiful after it passed over the sunset was shining on the cloud bank
and you could see the lightning inside the clouds :P.

The work is picking up here, we've had
a few referrals and we are trying to get to do some service because I think that
is how we will get through to the people, I think they've had some 'pushy' missionaries so we are just loving and nice to people. We were invited to a Christian fundraiser by some people we met and it was nice, we were able to
talk to a lot of people. A new door approach I want to try is "we have prayerfully
selected you to hear about the gospel of Jesus Christ, is there a time we can
come and share it with you?" I think I'm really learning in
this area, 'whitewashing' stretches you but it is good.

I sort of
wish I could have stayed in Redcliffe but the Lord obviously wants me here and I
love it here, we just can't go to the Temple... again. C'est la Vie.

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